50 Hours and counting.

Now that we've gotten trough Christmas and all of the busy-ness that goes along with it, we have 2 days to get ready for Zimbabwe. Well, actually, Matt and I still have 2 more Christmases (one with each of his families) on Saturday. So I have today, Friday, and Saturday night to get everything prepared. I hadn't realized just what this meant and may be starting to freak a little. Not about Zimbabwe, but about the things I need to do to be gone for over two weeks (mail, dogs and food, security, mailings ready to go out for youth group, eek!). So yeah, 48 hours. I hope I can sleep on the plane because something tells me I may not get a lot of it the next two days!

My dad and his fiancee got Matt and I a Nikon D60 Digital SLR camera for Christmas. I am excited to be able to begin using it and take some great photos to remember Zimbabwe with. Abigail got a digital video camera so we are already talking and excited about what we want to get video of. Hopefully we can make some good media when we get back that will help raise further awareness of the situation in Zimbabwe.

Tonight we meet with most of the team as well as Melody (who has been in Zimbabwe twice) and our friends Dan and Mary (who are preparing to move to Zimbabwe permanently and have been there many times). We will be getting together for Pizza, prayer and chatting. Dan and Mary have been to Zim the most and the most recently. They have some things they would like to share with us before we go. I will hope to update a few more times with our itinerary and any last minute thoughts.

Oh- and on a final note, we start Malarone tomorrow and I am not looking forward to it! I better not puke!